West Berkshire
Parent Carer Forum
Empower and enable your voices to be heard
West Berkshire Parent Carer Forum
Welcome to West Berks Parent Carer Forum!
We are a friendly group of parent carers who have children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities aged from 0-25 years.
We want to improve our local services, and by coming together as a collective, we can and do make changes. We love the video below and think the video below explains it perfectly. We are always happy for more people to join us, there’s no charge to join, we are completely free, and we are a relaxed fun group. So if you would like to be part of friendly bunch of people who would like to see SEND changes in West Berkshire, we would love to have you 
As a Forum we can support and train parent carers to enable them to have their voices and opinions count, and to be involved with shaping services alongside the professionals who provide health, education, adult and social services.
Our shared mission is to improve and enhance the experiences and opportunities of children and young people with additional needs, by enabling parents and carers to be heard, and to be at the heart of decisions about development and delivery of services in West Berkshire.
The forum represent the views of the collective community and not an individual voice, we are unable to advocate for individual families, but can signpost to specialist services.
Updates on Facebook
These workshops are open to parents of children aged between 3-16 years, with a clinical diagnosis of autism.
Parents are welcome whether they already have a pet dog or not.
14 January, 11 February and 11 March 2019
The Sutton Hall, Stockcross, Newbury RG20 8LN
Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-dog-workshops-2019-newbury-tickets-51814297960
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Did you know there is a fabulous Youth Club in Hungerford called ICE? It is run by parents and carers, and the club is for any child on the SEN register, from School Year 6 up to 11
It is held at the John o Gaunt Youth & Community Centre in Priory Road, Hungerford, is open to kids from any area. It costs £1.00 per week to come along, is on a Tuesday from 6.30 to 8.30.
We have a chill out room, x boxes, arts & crafts, air hockey, pool table, and lots of sensory equipment. We have a tuck shop, and even make sweet treats in our fabulous new kitchen.
Parents can have a short break whilst your child has fun with others, and it's a fun place to be.
If you are interested in the club please do contact the ICE Facebook Page on the following link. www.facebook.com/ICEyouthgroup/